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Saturday, July 26, 2014

The Creative Continuum of Seven Artists ~ July...the Finale

Today is the Seventh of Seven dates from January through July we are posting work we made with goodie bags other Bloggers sent us. Alicia had the idea that we each send out six packages with beads or focals and on the 26th of each month we reveal what we made with a certain participant's package.

I am honored to be in this group of Seven...these ladies are a creative bunch.

So here we are ~ the Grande Finale. Seven months...a brutal and seemingly endless Winter into a fleeting Spring into Summer Fun. Today, we celebrate Emma's offerings. She made the polymer focal and sent other beads to go with it. It started out very light and airy and summery, with pink silk cord. But it seemed too light. And when I asked my daughters what they thought, they didn't have much to say. SNIP. And almost instantly, I started weaving a necklace I used to teach. This version has a base of grey lined triangle beads that are ladder stitched, with picot edging with seed beads on one side and picot edging with tear drops and seeds on the other side. Then I took the pendant and beads and had them drop off the necklace.

Fleur is in desperate need of clothes and has been going au natural lately. This necklace seems right at home on her gorgeous body.

Thank you Emma ~ this focal is GORgeous with its folds and colors.

And thank you Alicia for being the leader of this small group of lovely women. Without your idea to pull us all together, this would not have happened.

And thank you Monique, Therese, Sally, and Cynthia for the packages you sent. We created some mighty fine work these past seven months, haven't we ladies?

And thank you for being here, reading my tiny blog. I still love being here :-)

10 comments:

Fleur looks fantastic au natural! (that just made me giggle) .... she does look fantastic sporting this gorgeous necklace! loving the double chain, and well loving that chain! perfect ending to our group hops! And yeah!! your schedule posting worked (and that still makes me laugh as our first conversation on the wonders of blogging technology). Hope you're having a wonderful summer my friend

Hi Christine,Beautiful necklace I love how you have the pendant and the other components coming off of the beaded rope. I forgot to do a blog post, I knew there was something I was suppose to do yesterday, oh well I will get it posted when I get home from work.Therese

The seed bead strand perfectly echoes the focal. It's like the focal unfolded itself into a beautiful rope. The way you separated the focal from it's sister seed bead strand is perfect. It adds an element of surprise, a strategic interruption of sorts between incarnations. I don't know if that even makes sense.

Great idea, Christine, to go with the muted, soft grays, and those drops add the perfect light and space to your design. Your neckstrap is the perfect counterpoint to that dramatic focal - very end-of-summer romantic.

Fleur looks quite good :) I just love the necklace base, it's perfect for Emma's delicate pendant - a glorious celebration, indeed!Thank you for being part of this group - it has been so much fun, I hope we'll be able to continue :)

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